Five rabbits and other animals
Tales of the albino people of Mozambique
Having skin as white as the moon in Africa is not easy. Considered ghosts, spirits of the ancestors who, by sorcery, remain among the living, or children of the moon or the stars, albinos suffer all kinds of exclusion.
Our book aims to give them a voice, to make them visible and, above all, to show that they are people, because what characterizes us as human beings is the ability to fabulate, that which we call "literature". This is how, through this book, we want to show the humanity of these black people with white skin, who have so many difficulties because they are different.
With the purchase of this book, which is intended to be more than a book, you contribute to the support of the Centro de Día de las Hermanas Mercedarias in T3 (Matola). We will also deliver books in Portuguese to schools where there are people with albinism and you will be able to read together. If you want to know what is behind this project go to Read with Africa
We leave you the story The hedgehog and the lion Told by the Ali family in the wilaya of Dakhla.
Written by Ana C. Herreros
Illustrated by Daniel Tornero
Collection: Mini Black Series
Size: 16 x 24cm
Pages: 56
Binding: Rustic with flaps
ISBN: 978.84.125007.9.0
(Price without VAT €14.90)
P.V.P. €15.50
Ana C. Herreros
She was born in León and her grandmother kept quiet stories. So she soon learned to listen to the silence and to love those who have no voice, those who don't tell tales.
So much so that, years later and already an emigrant in Madrid, she began to write a doctoral thesis on the literature of those who neither write nor read. And so, researching the oral tradition, in 1992 she came across oral narration. She started telling stories, and for more than twenty years, she has not been silent. Then her voice filled with ink and she started writing. Her work has been translated to Catalan, French and Mexican. She has made an autistic man speak, a princess sit down to listen to her lecture and 16 6-month-old babies preferred listening to her stories to taking a bottle. Oh, if her grandmother raised her head...
With Libros de las Malas Compañías she has also published the following titles:
Daniel Tornero
He is an illustrator, narrator and teacher, but above all, he is a narrator. He has been with the Jamacuco stage group since the last century, and he likes telling stories so much that he has gone from voice to paper. Now he also paints the parallel universe of the stories using coloured pencils and a brush made of the hair of a child. Whether as a narrator or as a cartoonist, the important thing is that it continues telling.
As an illustrator, he has been working since January 2012 at the Ipad Magazine DON, and since May 2014 he has been the art director, designer and illustrator of the publishing house Libros de las Malas Compañías. He has already published a book, The Skeleton Woman, which has been a finalist for the Extraordinary Prizes for Plastic Arts and Design of the Autonomous Community of Madrid. It has also received the Honorable Mention at the XII Audiovisual Awards of the Directorate General for Equality.
With Libros de las Malas Compañías he has also illustrated the following titles:
